Radiator element.



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I RADIATOR ELEMENT. I APPLIOATIOILIILBD JAN. 31, 1910. RENEWED 1130. 1a, 1910.

Patented Jul 18,1911.

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UNI E STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL BEHRINGER AND HERMAN BEHRINGER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

R.ADIATOR ELEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1911.

Application filed January 31, 1910, Serial No. 541,138. Renewed December 13, 1910. Serial No. 597,152.

To all whom it may -comer-n:

Be it known-that we EMIL BEHRINGER and HERMAN BErIR NGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiator Elements, of which the following is a specification.

. Our invention relates to automobile radiators comprising individually removable sections and particularly to radiators of the honey-combed or cellular type, wherein the surfaces of sections radiate direct without the-use of heat absorbing disks.

The chief object of the invention is to provide novel, simple and efficient means for attaching the removable sections and for placing them in communication with the rest of the system.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists in the parts, improvements and combinations, hereinafter more fully set forth.

Referring now to the drawings for a brief description thereof, Figure 1 is a partial side view of the upper portion of the invention, contiguous parts thereof being shown in section; Fig. 2'is a front View of Fig. 1, contiguous parts being omitted; Fig. 3 is a sectional view, corresponding to Fig. 1, through the lower part of the invention; Fig. 4 is a sectional View on the line H of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a modification of Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a modification of Fig. 2, showing straight tubes.

In these views the numeral 2 indicates the water-tank of an automobile radiator, and 3 is the water-recipient below the water- Preferably, the water-tank 2 has the hollow depending rear portion 4, and the water-recipient 3 is provided with hollow upstanding rear portion 5. In the modification illustrated in Fig. 5, the depending rear portion 45 of the water-tank is merely a flange or wall.

Each radiator section, of which there are a plurality in the radiator, consists of a compartment 6 under and communicating with the water-tank 2,. a compartment 7 over and: communicating with the water recipient 3, and a plurality of thin and deep tubular cooling elements 8 (as shown,four in number) arranged side by sidec'onnectin'g and communlcating with the compartments 6 and 7.

Preferably, these cooling elements 8 are wavy or sinuous, but in Fig. 6 we have illustrated straight elements 8 between which are disposed wavy or sinuous strips of copper or brass 8", which afford radiating surfaces.-- The total width of the cooling elements of each section is as great as the Width of the compartments 6 and 7.

In accordance with the invention, the compartment 6 consists of the horizontal porcompartment 7 has the horizontal portion 11 and the verticalport-ion 12. They ends of the cooling elements 8 or 8 are secured to and communicate with these horizontal portions 9 and 11,-, The horizontal portion 9 has a horizontal guide 13, which is received in an aperture in the depending portion 4 of the water-tank; and the vertical portion 10 has a. horizontal guide 14, which is received in an aperture in the front portion of the water-tank. Similar guides 15 and 16 are provided at the lower end of the-radiator section.

Inaccordance with the invention bothof the horizontal guides 13 and 1 1, and similarly both of the guides 15 and 16, constition 9 and the vertical portion 10; and the tute pdrts placing the compartment in communication with the water-tank 2, and the water-recipient 3. In Fig. 5, however, we

have shown a form of the invention wherein According to our invention, attaching bolts 18' pass through the vertical portions 10 and 12 of the compartments between the axial lines of the guides 13 and 14, and 15 and 16. Thimbles 17 surround the bolts and keep them out of contact with the water in the compartments. The bolts are shown as screwed into lugs or flanges 19 and 20,

f rmed onthe water-tank 2 and the waterrecipient 3, respectively. Lock washers 21 may be inserted under the heads of the. bolts 18.

Packing is indicated at 22 for the several slip' joints.

It will be apparent that the construction described is at once simple and efficient, and that the radiator sections may be readily removed and replaced, and when in place are firmly held. It will be seen, also, that the provision of two ports for each compartment insures free circulation.

ring described our invention, we to secure by Letters Patent and claim,

i. t radiator elementconsisting of a plurality of thin and wavy tubes placed side by side in the breadth o1 the radiator body, and a pair oi? compartments of substantially the same depth and width. as the plural tubes and running fore and aft in said body, said compartments communicating with the opposite ends of said tubes and having fornun'dly-located ports for ingress and egress ot the fluid passing through the radiator.

23. it radiator element comprising a pair oi lfl shaped compartments with the horizontal members thereof extending fore and aft in the r: liator body; guides connected with "-mbers of each compartment to diroot and. sustain the same forwardly and rearwardly in said body, and a plurality of wavy tubes joining said compartments one with the other, some of said guides affording suitable ports for the eception and dis charge of the fluid l'lowin, ator t0 and from said compartments and tubes.

In a radiator, the combination with a watertank, and a water'recipient below the same, ot a detachable radiator section comprising a compartment under and communicating with said water-tank, said compartment consisting of a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, horizontal guides connecting said portions, respectively, with said water-tank, the guide of the vertical portion constituting a port placing said compartment in communication with said water tank, a similar compartment over and similarly connected and communicating with said water-recipient, a plurality of cooling elements connecting and communicating with said horizontal portions, and means for securing said compartments against removal from .aid water-tank and water-recipient.

l. in a radiator, in combination with a water-tank, and a water recipient below the same; a detachable radiator section comprising an upper compartment, a lower compartment and cooling elements connecting and communicating with said compartments, said upper compartment comprising a horizontal portion to which the upper ends of said cooling elements are connected, and a portion extending upward from the front end of said horizontal portion, an upper and forward tubular guide constituting a port connecting said upward extending portion with the tank and a lower and rearward 'tubular guide constituting a port connecting the rear end of said horizontal portion with the tank.

in a radiator, in combination with a water-tank and a water recipient below same; a detachable radiator section comprising an upper compartment connected to and through the radicommunicating with said tank, a lower compartment connected to and comnmnicating with said. recipient, and cooling elements connecting and communicating with said compartments, said compartments compris ing horizontal portions to which said ments are connected, and vertical portions extending upward and downward respectively, from the front ends of said hori zontal portions, horizontal guides connecting the rear ends of said horizontal portions with the tank and recipient, horizontal guides connecting said vertical. portions with the tank and recipient, certain of said guides constituting ports and attaching bolts passing through said vertical portions into the tank and recipient between the axial lines of the two horizontal guides of each compartment.

6. in a radiator, in combination with a water tank and a water recipient below the same: a detachable radiator section, comprising an upper compartment connected to and communicating with said tank, a lower compartment connected to and communicating with said recipient, and cooling elements connecting and communicating with said compartments, said compartments comprising horizontal portions to which said elements are connected and extensions project- .ing upward and downward, respectively,

from the forward ends of said horizontal portions, horizontal guides connecting the rear ends of said horizontal portions with said tank and recipient and short attaching bolts passing through said extensions into said tank and recipient.

7. in a radiator, the combination with a water-tank having a depending rear portion, and a water-recipient below the same and having an upstanding rear portion, of a detachable radiator section comprising a compartment under and communicating with said water-tank, said compartment consisting of .a horizontal. portion and a vertical portion, horizontal. guides connecting said portions, respectively, with said depending rear'portion and. the front portion of saidwater-tank, a compartment over and communicating with said water-recipient, said compartment consisting of a horizontal portion and avertical portion, horizontal guides connecting said portions, respectively, with said upstanding rear 'portion and the front portion of said water-re cipient, and a plurality of cooling elements connecting and communicating with said compartments 8. In a radiator, the combination with a water-tank having a hollow depending rear portion, and a water-recipient below the same and having a hollow upstanding rear portion, of a detachable radiator section comprisin compartment under said water-tank, said compartment consisting of ill-5 ,hOIlZOIltiLl portion and a vertical portion,

slip joints connecting and placing said portions in communication, respectively "witli said-upstanding rear portion and the front portion of said water-recipient, a plurality of cooling elementsconnecting and com munica'ting with said compartments, and

-' means for securing said compartments against removal from said watertank and water-recipient.

9. In a radiator, the combination with-a water-tank, and a water-recipient below the same, of a detachable radiator section comprising a compartment under and commu nicating with said water-tank, and a compartmentover and communicating with said water-recipient, thimbles extending across v the interiors of said compartments, securing bolts passing through said thimbles out of contact with the water in the compartments and a plurality of cooling elements connecting and communicating with said compartments,

,10. In a radiator, the combination with a Water-tank, and a water-recipient below the same, of a -radiator section comprisinga compartment under and communicating with said water-tank, said compartment consisting of a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, horizontalguides connecting said portions, respectively, with said water-tank, a similar compartment over and commun cating with said water-reciplent and similarly connected therewith, thimbles extending across the interiors of said vertical portions, securing bolts passing through said thimbles into the water-tankand waterrecipie'nt, respectively, and cooling elements "connecting and communicating with said com artments.

,. slgned'at the borough of Manhattan in 'the'county of New York and State of New York this 29th day of January A. 1910.

v EMIL BEHRINGER. i HERMAN BEHRINGER.

"l/Vitnesses:

ELEANOR T. MINOGUE, LEWIS V. HULSE. 

